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You had, you know, the franchise tag moment here for the NFL. It seems like the Vikings are moving on from Sam Darnold and I think we're going to look back on eight days. Eight days with Sam Darnold in Minnesota. Probably cost him, I don't know, a hundred million dollars because he was playing great. They were playing great. If he would have gotten hurt week 15, he probably would have gotten that big contract from somebody in maybe Minnesota. But the eight days that he had, enter the regular season, postseason, and then they bow out. He was great until he wasn't. And now all of a sudden, the market seems to be drying up a little bit. It's like when you go, oh, if that girl was available, there'd be a lot of guys who'd want to date, date her. Then all of a sudden she's available and you're like, maybe not. Sam Darnold is kind of waiting. Where is he going to land? Daniel Jeremiah, the draft expert for NFL Network, says if Sam Darnold gets to the market, I'd be very curious to see if Blank got involved. I think he's a clear upgrade for this team that needs to win right now. Todd, fill in the blank with Daniel Jeremiah's tweet. I'd be very curious to see if Blank got involved. Bringing in Sam Darnold, the Tennessee Titans. Tennessee Titans. Seaton, what about you? The Indianapolis Colts. Yeah, the Colts are ready to win now, and you feel like that coaching staff has to win now. This goes back to what I said a couple of days ago. There are certain coaching staffs, they know they have to win. So the first eight games, nine games, are more important to them than any other team. The Giants first eight or nine games, because if you're 2 and 7, you're probably getting fired. If you're 7 and 2, you're probably getting an extension. The situation that you have with the Colts, that you have with the Giants, maybe the Arizona Cardinals, there's certain coaching staffs that have been there, and now you got to prove yourself. Can you bring in Sam Darnold? He's an upgrade over Anthony Richardson. You gotta win now. This is a place where I thought Aaron Rodgers could go. They've taken on older quarterbacks or maybe they've learned their lesson. But I thought Aaron Rodgers would be a big upgrade, and that's a team that can win now. Got a really good running back. I got Rogers playing half of his season in a dome. You can win the division, be competitive in the division. You can win 10 games and then you're a playoff team. Now what do you do after that year with Aaron Rodgers? That's the tricky part. But if I'm a coach trying to hold on to my job, you know, the Giants coaching staff. According to DraftKings, the Giants are tied with the Titans. Of who's going to have the number one pick? Well, the Titans have the number one Pick, which tells you there's a whole lot of momentum of the Giants going up to get Cam Ward. Now if you're the Giants, let's just play this out, just a hypothetical. I'm going to give you Sam Darnold and you can draft Travis Hunter. So I got Malik neighbors, Travis Hunter, Sam Darnold, how good am I? Or we're going to trade some first round picks, maybe a player and then we go up to get Cam Ward who is not proven and in any other draft would probably be the fourth, fifth, sixth quarterback take. But I get the rookie contract. But you got a coaching staff that needs to win now. But that's where you can say if you're the coach, you go, you know what, we should go get Cam Ward and then, you know, we'll need a couple of years to develop him. Well, then we'll probably have to keep you on coach. But that might be, if I put it in those terms, that Sam Darnold's going to cost you. He's not going to cost you $50 million, but let's say cost you $40 million a year. Maybe you sign him to a three year deal. I get Travis Hunter and I got Malik neighbors and I got them on rookie deals. Okay? Now Sam Darnold, Kurt Cousins, Aaron Ross, I mean it's kind of, I don't know, b, B minus level quarterback play, C plus, although the Giants should die for that. You get B minus quarterback play like sure. But what's it say about Minnesota that they're going to stay with J.J. mcCarthy who got hurt, hasn't played yet and Daniel Jones who was the starter with the Giants is the backup there, at least for now. And they're going to let Sam Darnold go unless they can work out a deal. And I think there's still the possibility of can they work out a deal for Sam Darnold? And you know, Mike Florio. Pro Football Talk had some wild speculation here and you know, he thought about this. If JJ McCarthy would ask out of Minnesota. Now this isn't a report, but let's say you bring back Sam Darnold on a multi year deal and this is what Mike Florio is talking about. If you're J.J. mcCarthy, what would you do? Would you go to front office and say, hey, I'm, I'm ready to play. Now you were going to make me the starting quarterback. Sam Darnold was going to be the backup. Now once again, this is just Mike Florio speculating here, but if you're J.J. mcCarthy, you're expecting. I think there was a report that he's already been told he's going to be the starter next year. Like, okay, but Mike Florio says, what if they bring back Sam Darnold? I haven't heard that, but Mike would be in the know there. But that's, you know, there. There is. You still have Russell Wilson. You still have Justin Fields. You have a situation with Shador Sanders. Is he worth taking in the top 10, top 5? If he's there for the Giants at 3, do you take him, Cam Ward? It feels like that makes a lot of sense that it doesn't feel like yet that there's a downside now. There will be because they're going to put Cam Ward under the microscope soon. We have so much time. Time is the enemy of prospects, big time prospects. Maybe a reach for somebody. Maybe there's a question mark. Time is the enemy because if the draft was tomorrow, I'd be curious where Shador Sanders would go. The draft is not until the end of April and I'm curious what this time period does, good or bad to Shador Sanders. All right, see, we'll come up with a poll question today a little later on. Our good buddy Jim Jackson, Fox Sports former NBA player. Lot to talk to him about. Including the big matchup with the Knicks and the Lakers coming up tonight. I do have over unders here for the Knicks and the Lakers scoring wise. Luca over under tonight. Marvin, I'll start with you.